This
site is based on the original online guide to Library Exhibits
on the Web, which was created by Andrea Bean Hough in 1995 and
maintained at the University of Houston Libraries web site, where
it grew to approximately 350 links. When the University of Houston
stopped updating the Library Exhibits on the Web site because
of staffing and workload changes in late 1998, Diane Shaw of the
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (then serving as chair of the
Exhibition Awards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division
of the American Library Association) offered to take over the responsibility
of updating and maintaining the site, with the permission of both
Ms. Hough and the Head of Special Collections and Archives at UH
Libraries, Ms. Pat Bozeman. The guide, now known as Library and
Archival Exhibitions on the Web, currently resides on the Smithsonian
Institution Libraries web site, where it has grown to include over
3000 links to online exhibitions from libraries, archives, and museums
around the world.